| ID | World Region | Intl Org | UK Region | UK Partner | Type of Activity | Project Description | Dates | Website | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Americas, Asia | Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum, Watson Museum, Rajkot, Gujarat, Calico Museum, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, Sanskar Kendra, Ahmedabad, Gujarat | London | Brent Museum | International Heritage Links | Niti Acharya (now Curator at Hackney Museum) visited India on a British Council Connections Through Culture travel grant. Purpose of India visit / museums contacted: Research designs in museums in Gujarat and Mumbai to learn more about the items to be displayed in the Indian Pavilion at the British Empire Exhibition in Wembley. Research Gujarat textile trade and trace trade routes of fabric and designs that link with local Gujarati community in Brent. Museums contacted / visited: Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum Watson Museum, Rajkot, Gujarat Calico Museum, Ahmedabad, Gujarat Sanskar Kendra, Ahmedabad, Gujarat |
Niti Acharya, Curator Hackney Museum | ||
| 2 | Americas | London | Horniman Museum and Freud Museum | International Heritage Links | Project to link regional museums with tourism organisations in the region and in BRIC countries and Visit Britain to promote inbound tourism to regional museums. London partnered with Brazil. | Janet Vitmayer Chief Executive Horniman Museum | |||
| 3 | Asia | London | Horniman Museum | Knowledge/Skills/Research Exchange | Fiona Kerlogue, Deputy Keeper of Anthropology, visited India on a British Council Connections Through Culture travel grant. Purpose of the visit was to investigate links between the Horniman's collections and India, focusing on Jaipur and Kolkata, and explore possibilities for touring exhibitions in India. | ||||
| 4 | Europe | London | London Transport Museum | Conferences and Events | "Director of LTM attended International Association of Transport and Communications Museums conference, 15-18 June 2014, Stockholm and Gavle, Sweden Theme: Exchange Platforms - hands on and best practice" | Sam Mullins Director London Transport Museum | |||
| 5 | Europe | London | London College of Fashion (University of the Arts) | Touring Exhibitions | 1914 Now: Four Perspectives on Fashion Curation Curated by Alison Moloney, the International Exhibitions Programme presents fashion and dress through a cross-disciplinary series of exhibitions, events and conferences in the UK and globally. The projects explore the discipline of fashion curation and are developed in collaboration with international museums and galleries, educational institutes, independent designers and London College of Fashion alumni, staff and students. The film installation delves into the practices of internationally renowned curators who have distinct approaches to their discipline. http://showstudio.com/project/1914_now | Alison Moloney, Curator of International Programmes | |||
| 6 | Europe | London | British Library | Digital Projects | Europeana Sounds is a EC-funded project, running from Feb 2014-Jan 2017, which will greatly improve the discovery of and access to Europe’s rich digital sound and music collections, by enriching metadata and by doubling the number of sounds and audio-related digital items on the Europeana web portal. The project will build a sustainable best practice network including the 24 funded project partner institutions from 12 EU member states. The British Library is the lead partner. | Feb 2014 - Jan 2016 | |||
| 7 | Middle East | Qatar Foundation and the Qatar National Library. | London | British Library | Digital projects | The British Library Qatar Foundation Partnership has launched the Qatar Digital Library – a new, bilingual, online portal providing access to previously undigitised British Library archive materials relating to Gulf history and Arabic science. The portal makes the modern history and culture of the Gulf and wider region, particularly its connection with Britain, available through vividly documented personal and official archives, photographs, maps and recordings of traditional music held at the British Library. All made possible thanks to a partnership between the British Library, the Qatar Foundation and the Qatar National Library. | |||
| 8 | Europe | London | Royal Museums Greenwich | Loans In/Out | Research, touring exhibitions, loans, licensing, fundraising. | Sarah Newton, Manager International Strategic Working | |||
| 9 | Europe | London | V&A | Digital Projects | Europeana Fashion Project demonstrated that contributing to international partnership projects can utilise and provide maximum access to existing content, in this case digital images of the V&A’s fashion collections. This approach also meant working with minimal additional resources, with each partner making a contribution based on their existing skills and expertise. http://www.europeanafashion.eu/portal/home.html | Roxanne Peters, Intellectual Property Manager/Europeana Fashion Project Manager | |||
| 10 | Europe | London | Wellcome Trust | Touring Exhibitions | Collaborative exhibitions with overseas institutions | Jane Holmes, Exhibitions & Touring Manager | |||
| ID | World Region | Intl Org | UK Region | UK Partner | Type of Activity | Project Description | Dates | Website | Contact |